Webtoons, the digital comics that have been the source material for scores of Korean films and TV series, are to receive a major boost from the South Korean government. Yu In-chon, minister for ...

The boom in Korean television in the US has been hard for anyone with a Netflix account to miss. But while American audiences were bingeing on Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead over the last two years ...

Webtoons, the vertical-scrolling iteration of digital comics that emerged some twenty years ago in Korea, along with the smartphone, are now a global medium. But they are only at the beginning of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. In a 2023 talk in Seoul Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos noted ...

(Reuters) -Shares of online comics platform Webtoon Entertainment rose as much as 14.3% above their initial public offering price in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday. The stock opened at $21.30, giving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Korean crime-action webtoon “Knuckle Girl” is being adapted as an original film production for Amazon’s Prime Video. It is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. For decades, Asian comics, particularly Japanese manga, have ...

South Korea strengthens its spot as the world’s webtoon capital as creators are now using artificial intelligence (AI). AI technologies help improve production efficiency and augment intellectual ...

An activist investor is attempting to lure support from younger Korean investors for its campaign against management of KT&G Corp. by using one of the country’s most popular forms of entertainment: ...